Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-05

the amendment giving clerks to representa-.
| tves. Lost.
Mr. Homan's motion received majority
| vote and the motion was declared carried,
passing the legislative appropriation bill.
The river and harbor bill failed to receive
the presidents signature. It reached him
| several DAYS ago but was pocketed vetoed.
| The conference report on the Dill amending
| sections jlDl and jl92 revised statutes, was
presented and agreed to.
Mr.. Reed of Maine Hatch OF Missouri
being in the chair offered. the following
| resolution, which was adopted unanimously
| by standing vote:
Resolved, That the thanks of this house is
hereby rendered to John g. Carlisle, the
speaker. for courtesy. ability and fairness
with which ne has presided over the delibera.
tions of the Forty-ninth congress.
Mr. Forncy of Alabama, from the commit
| tee on conference on the Notifications bill,
| reported continued disagreement.
Mr. Randall of Pennsylvania stated the
senate bill involved the expenditure of S4O,-
jOrity of the conferees were willing to adopt,
appropriated Sl7,0oo,OW. lie obtained leave
| to nave the two measures printed In the rec
ord in order that the country might judge
| between them.
Mr.. Butterworth of Ohio regretted that
congress must adjourn without taking step
~ the direction of providing coast defenses.
| The failure to agree he attributed to the delay
| In the cOnferees coming together.
| Mr.. Reed of Maine criticized the position
of the house cOnferees, declaring that 1t
meant the manufacture of iron guns instead
| of steel guns.
MIR. Butterworth replied that this was an
entire. mistake. The house cOnferees had
agreed to appropriations for steel guns, aud
he declared there was not word of truth in
| what the gentleman said.
Mr.. Reed reiterated his statements, arguing
| that under the provisions OF the house bill
steel guns could not be manufactured.
The report was accepted and the bill died.
Mr. Burns of Missouri presented confer
| rpnorf the ppnpra upticpnry bill and
| 1t was agreed to. 1t contains q provision for
the completion of four steel cruisers, but
omts appropriation for the payment of the
Central Pacific and ChOctaw claims
| The message was received from the presi-
dent saying he had no further communica-
tions to make to congress and the speaker
after short speech thanking the members
for their resolution, declared tho house ad-
| jOurned.
1t is said at the white house that there is no
| probability OF special session being called
by the president for the purpose of acting on
nominations or for any other purpose The
| Interstate commerce commission and the
| successor of Secretary Manning will prOba-
bly, he appointed next week, or the week fol-
| lowing.
Work OF the Session.
! WASHINGTON, March 4.-The congress
which ended its existence at noon to-day
has afforded striking illustration Of the
increase in the volume of legislation de-
manding the attention of congress which
has been going on for the last three or more
congresses. More bills were introduced in
both houses, more committee reports made,
more bills passed, more became laws, and
more were vetoed than ever before. The
most of these measures were of comparative
| unimpOrtance, such as bills granting private
| pensions and special relief, authorizing the
| erection OF bridges, granting right of way
and and the like; but many; not & only of . the bills
enacted, were of general interest and impOr-
tance. A number of bills enacted into laws
were old end familiar claimants for legisla-
presidential succession bill, the electoral
count bill, the interstate commerce bill
and the, bill for the relief of Fitz
John Porter. The. Forty-ninth con.
4th day Of December. 1885. and was IN session
until the 5th day of August, when 1t ad-
journed until December and continued in
session until its close to-day, covering total
days and the house S Isl days. There Ss were in.
troduced in the house during this time 1l,25S
| bills and 263 joint resolutions, on which over
5000 reports were made, being several thou
sand more bills and over thousand more re-
ports than were made In the FOrty-eighth
congress, which had In its turn beat the rec.
S,357 bills and 11S Joint resolutions, on which
l,9SS written reports were. made, being up-
wards of 500 more bills and over 400 more re-
ports, ports than In the ,I recorbreaking scI Forty.
enacted was approximately 1,4Sl, Of which
1,O93 originated In the house and 3cS in the
senate. Two hundred and sixty-fOur of these
tional ten s days limitation. Fifty bills failed
to become laws owing to the adjournment of
congress, nine Of them at the close Of the
first session. There were 1872 bills vetoed by
the president, or 2i more instances of the
exercise of the presidential prerogative
of the veto than had occurred from the founda.
tion of the government down to the begin
ming of this congress- OF tho vetoed bills
thirty-ninein the senate. But one private bill,
that granting a pension to Joseph Romeiser,
and one public bill, namely that providing
for the erection OF government building at
over the presidents veto, although several
others obtained the requisite two-thirds vote
in the senate only to fail in the house.
extraordinary one. comprising the unpre
cedented number Of thirteen names in the
house and senate. But one election case was
decided by the house against the sitting
an absence of that acrimonious discussion
which such contests usually awaken. The
Rhode Island case OF Page VS.. Pierce, in
which the house decided that neither party
was ordered, was the one instance of seal
peing taken from a sitting member.
or the 1,05S house bills which became laws
275 were OF more or less public nature. O
the remaining IT'S bills (granting pensions Ot
relief to specially designated persons), 1856 be
came laws without the approval Of the presi
dent
The following Is a list of the more im
portant house bills which became laws: Tt
forfeit the Atlantic Il Pacific railroad lane
grant; to increase the pension OF widow!
and dependent relatives from SIS to Sl2 pc
month: to abolish certain fees for ofllcia
services to American vessels and 10 amenC
the shipping laws (the Dingley bilD; Il
amend the Thurman act; the increase o
the naval establishments; to pension Mexican
war veterans; to impose tax and regulat,
the manufacture, sale, importation and ex
pOrtatiOn of oleomargarine; to authorize tn,
transfer of the Highwood tract, near Chicago
to the United States for military purposes: t.
protect homestead settlers within railroat
limits: to enable national banking institu
tiOns to increase their capital stock ant
change their name and location; for the con
struction Of congressional library build
ing; to forfeit tho New Orleans, BatOi
Rouge II Vicksburg railroad (Back bone
; land grant; to reduce fees on domestic none,
orders for sums of less than SIS; TO make al
lowances for clerk hire to pOstmasters OF tn,
first and second classes 10 cover the cost o
clerical labor in the money order business
toextend the immediate delivery system; t.
!, tla ~ or ptnI lo